Works on Paper and Statuettes
Cameron Jamie
Info: When you stare into a body of water, what you are aware of seeing is just a small piece of what you’re actually looking at. The true scope of what you’re taking in is much greater than what one can consciously comprehend. I get this same feeling when I look at Cameron Jamie’s work. My senses blur, and I am moved by what I do not know. Cameron’s ceramics–statuettes, he calls them–are creaturely, even cute, embodying the playfulness that is so fundamental to this work, while also being, unabashedly, a touch grotesque. Faces glom onto limbless bodies in a way that is almost parasitic, uncontrolled. When viewed as a group, the statuettes seem to evolve and reproduce, even to exhibit sociality, bringing to mind the backyard anthropology Cameron first became known for, as if he has now turned his sights toward the study and cataloging of this new species.